How to Put Limewire music, Youtube video, DVD/video files, games on iPod

Lots of people have iPods, but many of us still experience difficulties putting music, videos and other resources on iPod. I have been using my iPod for quite a long time, and the five tips below are what I have learned to put everything I can on my iPod:
1. Limewire music to iPod
2. Put DVDs, videos to iPod
3. Youtube video to iPod
4. Put games on iPod
5. Sync music and video to iPod

1. Put music and videos from Limewire to iPod
Limewire is a download tool I assume lot of us use. I often use it to download free music and videos and put them on my iPod. If you don’t have Limewire,you can download it from its official website.
Search and download songs from Limewire. You may get songs in all sorts of formats, but not all formats are supported by iPod. Usually I select three formats: MP3, AAC and M4A formats that are supported by iPod and can be directly transferred to iPod using iTunes. For the detailed specs info, you can visit http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html . After you download the songs, open your iTunes, click “File” from the upper left corner, select “Add file to library”, browse your computer hard drive and find the songs downloaded by Limewire, select the songs you prefer, click OK and the songs will be put in your iTunes. Then you can just transfer the songs to your iPod from iTunes.

2.Put DVD/Video to iPod
I have a huge collection of DVD movies and video files. And I always put a few movies on my iPod to kill time while travelling.
DVD movies cannot be transferred to iPod via iTunes, so I had to find a converter to do that. I have used a few converters and the one I am using now is Wondershare DVD to iPod Ripper. It is not free, but not expensive either. I decided to spend the money coz it does a good job on the final quality and conversion speed. And if I don’t want to put a whole movie, I can just convert part of a movie onto my iPod with this app. My OS is Windows, so I use the Windows version. If you are using a Mac OS, I have noticed that they have a Mac DVD to iPod converter that you can try, which I don’t know if is as good because I don’t have Mac OS.



Most of my video files are not MP4 formats that can be directly used on iPod, so I also bought the video to iPod converter from the same company coz I thought it would also be nice app, and it turned out to be so.
Actually, this video converter and the DVD converter are pretty much the same as far as the functions and the operational steps are concerned, and the only difference to me is that one is to convert DVDs and the other is to convert video files. If you also want a video to iPod converter, you can just download a trial version to see if it is what you need. Unfortunately, they don’t have a Mac version for video converters.3.Put DVD/Video to iPod
I have a huge collection of DVD movies and video files. And I always put a few movies on my iPod to kill time while travelling.
DVD movies cannot be transferred to iPod via iTunes, so I had to find a converter to do that. I have used a few converters and the one I am using now is Wondershare DVD to iPod Ripper. It is not free, but not expensive either. I decided to spend the money coz it does a good job on the final quality and conversion speed. And if I don’t want to put a whole movie, I can just convert part of a movie onto my iPod with this app. My OS is Windows, so I use the Windows version. If you are using a Mac OS, I have noticed that they have a Mac DVD to iPod converter that you can try, which I don’t know if is as good because I don’t have Mac OS.



Most of my video files are not MP4 formats that can be directly used on iPod, so I also bought the video to iPod converter from the same company coz I thought it would also be nice app, and it turned out to be so.
Actually, this video converter and the DVD converter are pretty much the same as far as the functions and the operational steps are concerned, and the only difference to me is that one is to convert DVDs and the other is to convert video files. If you also want a video to iPod converter, you can just download a trial version to see if it is what you need. Unfortunately, they don’t have a Mac version for video converters.

3. Youtube video to iPod
I often visit Youtube to watch videos and sometimes I download videos from Youtube to put on my iPod. Youtube videos are in FLV formats, so I use a free online FLV converter to do the conversion:
Firstly, go to Youtube and open the page of the video you want to put on your iPod. And you will find the Youtube URL of this video to the right of the playback window. Then copy this URL. See the highlighted area in the figure below:


Secondly, go to http://vixy.net/ , paste the copied URL into the URL field of this web page, and select “MP4 for iPod/PSP” from the “Converts to” drop-down list. Then click “Start” below this list to start the conversion. See the highlighted areas below:

Finally, after the conversion, this website will provide a download link for you to download the converted MP4 file. When you see the link, you can just download the final file from the link, save the downloaded MP4 file on your computer and use iTunes to sync it on to your iPod.



4. Put games on iPod
An iPod is not a professional game player like a PSP, but it does handle some easy and fun games nicely. One way to get iPod games is to buy them from iTunes store and sync them onto your iPod. If you want play free games on your iPod, which is something I often do, you can use iPodLinux and Rockbox, and there is a great guide you can refer to on how to put games on iPod with these two tools. Click here to view the guide.

5. Sync music and videos to iPod
Obviously, using iTunes to sync files to iPod is the choice of many iPod users. I use iTunes myself but I have found it a bit clunky. Apart from iTunes, there are also apps you can use to sync files to your iPod, either free or not:
a. YamiPod. YaniPod is very popular free tool to transfer files to iPod and it has different version for different operation systems.
b. Xplay. A friend recommended Xplay. I have tried it and found it is a great tool to sync files to my iPod and I just need to “drag-and-drop” my files to my iPod. I haven’t bought it yet but I think it is definitely worth a try.
c. MGTEK. This app can sync files with Windows Media Player 11. It is also a very nice tool and pretty cheap.
d. Wondershare iPod Video Transfer. This iPod sync tool is also free tool and it is built into the DVD to iPod Ripper and Video to iPod converter from this company. The two iPod converters are definitely great apps, as I motioned above. But their iPod Video Transfer still remains much too be desired, coz it doesn’t do a very good job syncing music to my iPod, although it is a nice tool to sync videos.

There are a lot more sync tools and you can refer to a comparison list on Wikipedia to and see which ones best work for you.

The above is my experience with converting and transferring files from various sources to my iPod, and I hope it can shed some light

How to rip DVD movies and convert vob to avi?

This tutorial is about how to use Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum to rip DVD movies, convert vob to avi and how to edit DVD Movies. As we know, DVD movie are contained in vob files, so we need to convert vob to avi and other regular video formats. With Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum, you can rip DVD movies and edit DVD movies with only a few steps.

Step 1: Load the DVD Movies
Open Wondershare DVD Ripper Platinum, and click load file. Here we can load three kind of DVD's:
1. Real DVD, just put the DVD in your DVD drive and click load DVD, ( you can find it by clicking the triangle on the right of 'load file' button.)
2. DVD ISO image, you can amount your iso files in the daemon tools and then load the DVD movie from the virtual DVD drive.
3. A DVD folder, sometimes you may store the DVD folder in your hard drive, it appears like "Video_ts" "audio_ts" folders. You can load it by clicking the "load DVD folders" button.
Tips: Wondershare DVD Ripper platinum cannot convert vob to avi or other video formats directly, in order to convert vob to avi or other video formats, you need to load the vob files from DVD rom or DVD folders




Step 2: Select formats
a) Regular DVD movies usually has several subtitles, like English, French, German, etc. You can select anyone according to your need.
b) Select Audio track as the same as select Subtitle.



c) Format: this software can convert DVD to all popular formats, it also can extract audio track from DVD and save as MP3 and M4A formats which are fit for digital audio players.



Step 3: Start to convert
If you don’t want to set any detailed settings, you can just select an output format from the format drop-down list and click the “Start” button to rip DVD movies and convert vob to avi or any other video formats. Then you can just go get a cup of coffee and come back later to check if the conversion is finished.

However, before you start the conversion, you may find the following operations useful to edit DVD movies:
Trim movie: If you don’t need to convert the entire DVD movie, you can just capture a clip from it to convert. See the two pairs of scissors under the Preview window? The scissors one the left are used to set the start time, and the scissors on the right are used to set the end time. Drag them to capture the clip you want to convert. If you want to precisely trim the video, you can click the Trim button on the top of the preview window.

Crop Video: There are always black edges around DVD movies; you can easily edit the DVD movie and remove them with this DVD Ripper. Click the Edit icon to open the Edit window. Go to the Crop tab, and you can set the output video aspect ratio crop the movie video. The program provides you with three methods to crop your video: select a crop mode from the Crop down-down menu, drag the crop frame around your video, or set the crop values (Up, Down, Left and right).

If you want to edit DVD movie effects, you can go to the Effect tab to set the brightness, contrast, saturation and select a pre-set movie effect.

A Professional Video Converter On Line

Recently, i surfed online, found a great and powerful third part converter software which call Wondershare Video Converter, a well know converter software online. A screen as follow.



Below is a description on the site:
Wondershare Video Converter is professional video converting software to convert video files and extract audio tracks from video with super clear output quality. It completely supports almost popular multimedia portable devices such as PSP, iPod, iPhone, mobile phone and more other players. Besides, Wondershare Video Converter provide >200% converting speed, so fast beyond your imagination;

The Wondershare Video Converter has powerful video editing function for advance user, it supports to trim any segment of movie, crop video site and edit video effect. And it has option to automatically shut down your PC after conversion. Meanwhile, Wondershare Video Converter built-in iPod and PSP file manager tools, which allow you to transfer files between PC and iPod or PSP with ease.

Compared with other dvd ripper, such as daniusoft dvd ripper, aimersoft dvd ripper, Wondersahre dvd ripper seem to be more easy to use and have more powerful function.

Video to Gphone and DVD to Gphone Converter

T-mobile released G1 one month ago, and it's reported T-Mobile has already sold all of its preorder units. No other companies have yet premiered Android-based phones, but rumors abound about many in the works. Allegedly, five other cell phone makers are working on Gphones—possibly including Samsung, LG, and Motorola. Qualcomm is supposed to definitely be one of the other makers. So i guess the Gphone will receive a big mobile phone market share in the future.

Relating to conversion market, do you think video to Gphone or DVD to Gphone will have a great market prospect? I think so, as long as the Gphone have a good market prospect, so will the Gphone conversion market.

And I have search "Gphone converter" on google, i have find some companies have already released the Video to Gphone and DVD to Gphone converter. But these sites seem to be just so so, and Xily, PQ, Cucu didn't release related products.

Meanwhile, i have foundd G1 specify, the input format of Gphone is MPEG-4, H.264 Video, MP3,WAV, AAC and AMR, and i found that Wondershare mobile phone converter which completely Gphone, it can all video to Gphone support videos.

In my opinion, if one leading converter software company develop and release such software (DVD to Gphone and video to Gphone Converter), it will grad the Gphone Conversion market easily.

What Gphone Look Like and Its Concept Designs

The iPhone has surely disappointed a lot of people out there but there is a new gadget, yet to come, which will definitely overpower the iPhone market and it is none other than the great Google Phone. The Google Phone is a 3rd generation gadget being designed by Google to bring the Google-Life to phones and mobiles.

Google Phone vs iPhone

There are rumors that the new Google Phone will simply out throw iPhone out of the gadget industry but of course nothing can be said so surely till its out in the market. Before its release, iPhone was said to have remarkable features but the gadget has turned out to be a disappointment for most of the Apple fans. Here are some Google Phone Concept Designs for you that will help you judge if the Google Phone will be powerful enough to dominate the iPhone market.

Though the concept design by Dog Orgod is simply out of this world but its too ideal to be the real Google Phone.

Why Google should have developed its own Gphone

Google is positioning itself for the future. It’s conquered search on the Internet, revolutionized advertising with AdSense, and opened the door for the development and acceptance of Web applications like Gmail and Gcal. At the same time Google is leading a media renaissance with the acquisitions of YouTube, Blogger, Picasa.

Google could sit tight and count its pennies, not unlike what Microsoft did during its heyday, or it could push forward, beyond the desktop and into the mobile world, where content and information are meeting voice communication and the cell phone.

So what will be Gphone be?

If done right, the Gphone will change the wireless industry, at least in the U.S. If not done right, the Gphone will be just another cell phone with some advanced features. Here’s what it might look like, if done right:

Tech Specs

Operating System

The big rumor is that Google is working on its own operating system, which would make sense if Google is to tie all of its applications and properties together in a cell phone. Back in 2005, Google purchased the mobile software company Android, started by Danger cofounder and former president Andy Rubin. The Android/Google team supposedly has developed a Linux-based mobile OS, which one expects will integrate tightly with Google’s interests to provide a satisfying user experience.